A few weeks back I spent six days with the Kulawai Team on Taveuni, Fiji’s fourth-largest island. The group, consisting of NatureFiji-MareqetiViti staff, as well as volunteers and led by Vilikesa Masimbalavu, came here to […]
Originally, I planned to post separate articles with birds of Fiji images depending on their size and type. A few months back I posted the first article with images of small to medium-sized birds here […]
A few weeks back we celebrated Amanda’s 31st birthday and we decided to enjoy a few days away from Suva by visiting Beqa Island. Due to the COVID situation, Fiji’s tourism industry has suffered drastically […]
As part of a larger video series about the European-funded RENI (Readiness for El Niño) Project implemented by the Pacific Community (SPC), I am currently editing a series of videos documenting different aspects of the […]
Some of you might know that besides the environmental work I do, I also work for the tourism industry, creating content for resorts, hotels, dive centers, liveaboards, and tourism boards. Earlier this year I spend […]
A few days ago I finished my last project: a short film about the My Fiji Shark Initiative by Beqa Adventure Divers (BAD) with support from the United Nations Development Program Office (UNDP Pacific) here […]
A short trip to New Zealand’s Northland . where we travel this magnificent country with a small campervan and stop at its most beautiful places.
While sharks are fished virtually in every coastal state of the world catch statistics are usually poorly documented, completely lacking or incomplete. That is true for large-scale commercial fishing fleets, artisanal fishers (small-scale commercial) and […]
Over the past month, I was able to follow up on some projects I have been wanting to do for quite a while. Part of that was also to utilize the footage I shot during […]
Finally, after more than a years work excluding the actual fieldwork itself, my first scientific publication was published yesterday in Ecology & Evolution. Titled “Discovery of a multispecies shark aggregation and parturition area in the […]
Tom Vierus is an award-winning photographer, filmmaker, and marine biologist based in Suva, Fiji Islands.
This page is dedicated to his work, projects, and assignments and to share some behind-the-scenes footage.
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